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A rule having no exception: "death and taxes"
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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I once discussed that with my religious brother-in-law. He insisted that there are exceptions to that rule. May not to the "taxes" part, though.
Religious freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make five.
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Amarnath S wrote: Would you agree with this conclusion? If so, is there any example of a rule having no exception?
Agreeing that a proof is valid is not the same as stating that it must be true. Now claiming that it is true could suggest that one should provide the example. Or provide other discussions that would suggest it is true. Or just believe and dispense with the work.
My favorite example with this is geometry (Euclidean) where parallel lines do not intersect. I certainly believe it. And I doubt anyone can provide an example that shows they do intersect. But for that matter they cannot provide an example where they do not intersect either.
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jschell wrote: parallel lines do not intersect
Though I am not a theoretical physicist, have heard that "space is curved", whatever it means. If space is curved, will there be a possibility of parallel lines meeting? Not sure.
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The exception for statement 1 is no exception. Doh
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"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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Thunderbird has been my SMTP client for years. My problem may be Thunderbird related, but my gut feeling says that it is not ...
I have several times noticed, when fetching new mail, that the status line says: 'Retrieving message 4 of 12', or something like that. When it completes, there are far less than 12 new messages in my inbox.
Tonight, it retrieved 'x of 6 messages', but only a single new message was in my inbox. There is nothing in the Thrash (and when something goes to Thrash, a counter displays the number of new entries). If a filter had redirected the messages to some other folder, it would have been seen in new count for that folder. Anyway, I have looked through every single folder, without finding anything new.
This is a fairly new thing; I have noticed it for a few weeks. Can anyone explain what is happening? Why does Thunderbird report 6 messages and display only 1 to me? I am suspecting that someone are trying to check if my mail address is valid, possibly also to see if I am reading the mailbox, by sending messages which somehow is marked to be deleted immediately, or possibly at a specific point in time that is already past - but I wasn't aware that SMTP had such a feature.
For the sender to be notified that I have received the mail, I am aware of an SMPT option for that. Thunderbird has several times presented a dialog box telling that the sender has requested a confirmation that the message has been received, with buttons for 'Return confirmation' and 'Do not send confirmation'. I have seen nothing of this when messages are 'missing'. I wasn't aware of an SMPT option for 'silently' generating a read confirmation - does it exist? If it exists, can it be used to secretly 'ping' me, the way it appears to me now?
Is there some other possible explanation? Could it be a Thunderbird hiccup? (That is a strange hiccup!)
Religious freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make five.
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Duplicates in 'All Mail' and Important ? I've seen that happen, but didn't pay attention to the message count.
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I do not have, nor can I remember ever having an 'All Mail' and 'Important' folder. Searching in the TB help information, it seems as if it may be related to IMAP mail servers - my connection is via pop3. Some entries about 'All Mail' also seem to relate it to gmail, but gmail is not my mail provider; I use online.no, a mail service run by the Norwegian phone company.
Any further proposals?
Religious freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make five.
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Maybe try thunderbird forums / support.
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Are some going into a spam folder?
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I have searched each and every mail folder, including Trash/spam folders. (Also: Thunderbird displays the number of unread messages in all folders; I see the spam count since last cleanup.)
I noticed that in C:App\users\<username>\AppData\Local\Thunderbird\Profiles\<profileid>\cache2\entries\ there are a few hundred files, mostly with binary/encrypted data, but some parts are readable text. A fair share of these, roughly 1 in 4 files, contains a (long) line starting with "content-security-policy: script-src https://ssl.google-analytics.com/ga.js ..." This strengthens my suspicion that some sort of monitoring / spying is going on.
I do no consider Google Analytics to represent my security concerns! Quite to the opposite. Google is more like securing profits, or possibly helping the authorities being secure against people with non-PC thoughts. (Eric Blair has some hints and tips on how to do that.)
Religious freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make five.
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NOTE: fixed link
Have any of you noticed this "skip to main content" feature in your browser shown in this snapshot[^].?
I absolutely hate it. I'm running Brave (chrome-based) and the latest release includes this so that it can help you get to the main content, but it does not work properly and it's just something else annoying that you have to click so you can see the content. It makes no sense at all.
It's a Genius-Feature, by half!
On the example page above it moves me to the first sentence of the article, but I was already sitting on the first sentence of the article.
I've tried to discover how to turn it off but it looks like there is no way to turn it off.
I seriously can't believe this is a "feature". This is the functional equivalent of the <blink> tag. Remember that gem?
modified 19hrs ago.
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The link seems to show something different.
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Thanks, I fixed the link now so you can see the example.
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